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«Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.»
Author: David Bohm
| Keywords:
compulsive, conform, conform to, constitute, deception, distortion, impose, meanings, self-deception, urge
«Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony»
Author: John Perry Barlow
| About:
University
| Keywords:
expel, impose, ironies, irony, universities
«Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
| About:
Photography
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come before, domination, impose, instrument, of their own, photograph, photographers, revelation, tenderly, The Domination
«Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Europe, fascism, for the first time, impose, resolved, syndicalism
«The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
impose, legality, ties
«There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
absurdity, firmly, human head, impose, planted, repeating, solemnities, solemnity
«The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
calculations, employ, exactness, financier, financiers, foundations, impose, instance, obliges, proceedings, revenue, solidity
«The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.»
«The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.»
«There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
impose, mandate, mandated, mandates, Return to, traditional, values, voluntary
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